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Orders can be sent to either firm. Antiquariaat FORUM BV ASHER Rare Books Tuurdijk 16 Tuurdijk 16 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten 3997 ms ‘t Goy – Houten The Netherlands The Netherlands Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Phone: +31 (0)30 6011955 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 Fax: +31 (0)30 6011813 E–mail: [email protected] E–mail: [email protected] Web: www.forumrarebooks.com Web: www.asherbooks.com www.forumislamicworld.com cover image: no. 19 v 1.2 · 13 Dec 2017 First edition of the “Divisiekroniek”, with 239 woodcut illustrations, in an interesting binding 2. [AUR ELIUS, Cornelius]. Die cronycke van Hollandt, Zeelandt en[de] Vrieslant beghinnende va[n] Adams tiden tot die geboerte ons heren Jh[es]u[m] voertgaende tot de[n] jare M.CCCCC. ende Xvij. Leiden, Jan Seversz., 18 August 1517. 2º. With the title-page printed in red and black with a large woodcut between different woodcut borders, and 239 woodcuts in text, including 121 woodcut portraits. Black blind-tooled goatskin (1637), with gold-tooled title and binding date on side. € 45 000 First edition of the famous and beautifully illustrated Dutch national chronicle, known as the “Divisiekroniek”, because of its publication in 32 devisions. The chronicle contains various narratives of historical, ecclesiastical and hagiographical nature and is profusely and beautifully illustrated with woodcuts of various size and style. Only ten of the woodcuts were specially designed and cut for the “Divisiekroniek”: apparently the Leyden printer Jan Severszoon used whatever he happened to have in stock. Some of the woodcuts are ascribed to Lucas van Leyden, Jacob Cornelisz. van Oostsanen and Cornelis Engebrechtsz. Of particular interest is the black goatskin binding with gold-tooling on the front side and the spine. There are 21 other volumes known with similar bindings, all with the date “1637” on the side and a shelf mark on the spine, with a number at the top (here: “102”) and a capital letter at the bottom (here: “E”). The highest number so far is “158”, the letters run from A to F. Professor Jan van Gelder has shown that the volumes originally belonged to the art-collector Pieter Spiering Silfvercrona (d. 1652), who was responsible for the uniform black leather bindings. With an owner’s inscription on the verso side of flyleaf by the Dutch engraver Frans Koerten (1603–1668), and owner’s inscription on pastedown by Van Meurs (?), who bought the present copy at the auction of the library of Johannes Enschedé. Very good copy, without the often lacking index of four leaves and only slightly browned. Binding rubbed along the extremities, slightly damaged on spine. Adams A2252; J. van Gelder & I.Jost, Jan de Bisschop and his icones and paradigmata (1985), pp. 196–211; Jeudwine, p. 253, and no. 388. Well-illustrated historical and regional study of Dutch gardens 3. BIENFA IT, Anna G. Oude Hollandsche tuinen... Met medewerking van Marg. Kossmann en een voorwoord van Prof.dr. J.Q. van Regteren Altena. The Hague, M. Nijhoff, 1943. Text (8º) and atlas (oblong 2º) volume. With the title-pages printed in green and black, 3 plates and 4 illustrations in text; atlas with 317 plates showing 372 illustrations. Original publisher’s decorated green cloth. € 375 First edition of a classic in the history of historical Dutch gardens, especially of interest for its rich illustrative material, collected from a great variety of sources. Bienfait treats her topic historically from the Middle Ages to stadholder Willem III (1650–1702), and continues with a horticultural description of different regions in the Netherlands. The accompanying atlas volume contains reproductions of paintings, book illustrations, maps etc. of gardens but also showing architecture, arranged chronologically and topically in accordance with the order of the text volume. Both volumes with the library stamp of Nanne Ottema (1874–1955) and a deaccession stamp on flyleaf (Tresoar, Leeuwarden). Some spots to book edge of text volume, otherwise in very good condition. Y.B. Kuiper, Buitenplaatsen in de Gouden Eeuw (2015), p. 15. Description of plants in Leiden University’s botanical garden 4. BOERHA AV E, Herman. Historia plantarum, quae in horto academico Lugduni- Batavorum crescunt cum earum charecteribus[!], & medicinalibus virtutibus. London [printed in the Netherlands], “sumptibus Societatis” [the Royal Society?], 1738. 2 volumes bound as 1. Large 12º. 18th-century calf, gold-tooled spine. € 1850 Third edition, with corrections and an expanded index, of Boerhaave’s description of the plants in Leiden University’s botanical garden. It gives an account of the various species, including the origins of the plants, their names, characteristics and possible medicinal prop- erties. It includes trees, herbs, flowers, mushrooms and marine plants, including cannabis and various American, East Indian and other exotic species. Upon his appointment as professor of medicine and botany at Leiden University in 1709, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) auto- matically became head of the botanical garden. He published his first catalogue of plants, Index plantarum, in 1710, and added more than two thousand species by the second edition in 1720, reflecting Boerhaave’s extensive additions to the garden. Although the present work bears Boerhaave’s name, it is believed to have been prepared by one of his students with the aid of lecture notes. With a manuscript note in the fore-edge margin of the title-page, referring to the part-two title-page. Lacking the final blank leaf. With very slight browning, but otherwise in very good condition. The hinges are cracked and the spine label and extremities slightly damaged, but the binding is otherwise good. Revised edition of an important botanical catalogue, especially valuable for its insights into Boerhaave’s teaching methods. Arnold Arboretum I, p. 91; ESTC T130372; Henrey 463; Kuijlen & Wijnands 91. The Amsterdam City Hall in full glory. With the magnificent engraving of the 1661 mosaic floor map of the world in 2 hemispheres, incorporating Tasman’s discoveries not otherwise published for decades 5. [CA MPEN, Jacob van, Hubert QUELLINUS and Jacob V ENNEKOOL]. Bouw schilder en beeldhouwkonst, van het stadhuis te Amsteldam, vertoont in CIX figuuren: . Amsterdam, J. Covens, C. Mortier and J. Covens junior, [ca. 1780]. 2º. With full-page engraved portrait of Jacob van Campen, engraved plates numbered I–CIX (here on 115 full-page, double-page and folding leaves) described under these numbers in the letter- press text. Contemporary half calf. € 5500 A comprehensive collection of plates showing all architectural features and sculpture of the Amsterdam City Hall, since 1808 the Royal Palace, here in the Covens & Mortier firm’s rare ca. 1780 issue with the engravings newly printed from the original copper plates from the years 1655 to 1664 and the text reissued from Leonardus Schenk’s 1747 Dutch language edition, the whole with a new title-page. “This version has not been seen’’ BAL( ). We have located only 7 other copies, some incomplete. It includes the famous plate showing the extraordinary cartographic mosaic floor of the Burgerzaal of the Amsterdam City Hall, designed by Jacob van Campen, with a celestial map in the centre and the magnificent map of the world in 2 hemispheres on either side. The map shows Tasman’s recent discoveries in Australia and Tasmania, and depicts California as an island. Jacob van Campen (1595–1657), the greatest architect of the Dutch Golden Age, began working on the design of the Amsterdam City Hall in 1640 and though it opened in 1655, it was not actually completed until 1665. Constantine Huygens called it the eighth wonder of the world. In very good condition with only some minor marginal soiling or browning. Spine with some superficial cracks, and restorations at its head and foot, sides scuffed. Fine print series showing the Amsterdam City Hall in full glory. BAL 132 note (citing Berlin Kat. & Kuyper for unseen “1730” Dutch ed.); Berlin Kat. 2236; Kuyper, Dutch Classicist architecture (Delft, 1980), pp. 212–215 and note 25 (p. 318); STCN (3 copies). Death sentence against Petrus Vuyst, former Governor of Ceylon 6. [CEY LON]. Sententie, gewezen by den Wel Ed: Raade van India, tegens den Heere en Mr. Petrus Vuyst, gewezene gouveneur van Ceylon. Geëxecuteert tot Batavia, den 19. Mey, 1732. [Batavia?, 1732]. 4º. Original blue wrappers. € 3500 Rare first edition, probably printed in Batavia, of the sentence against Mr. Petrus Vuyst, Governor of Ceylon between 1726 and 1729, pronounced by the Council of Justice at Batavia on 19 May 1732. Vuyst had sentenced 19 innocent people to death and mistreated and tortured many others. He faced trial for these severe charges, was found guilty and consequently executed at Batavia’s castle on 3 June, 1732. Three other editions appeared in Holland, all printed after this original edition (“Na een origineel Copy van Batavia, zoo en gelyk het den gevangene is voorgelese” (Landwehr 1012–1014).